This Jellyfish Can Defy Death And Turn Back Time.

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A species called T. dohrnii is able to reverse its own aging process. Texas A&M-Galveston researchers are trying to see if this could apply to humans.

This Jellyfish Can Defy Death And Turn Back Time

A species called T. dohrnii is able to reverse its own aging process. Texas A&M-Galveston researchers are trying to see if this could apply to humans.

today.tamu.edu

 

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^ It appears that a species of jellyfish can not only defy death, but has the ability to change its form and actually reverse its aging in a sort of “Back to the Future” process, according to ongoing research by a Texas A&M University at Galveston professor.

Maria Pia Miglietta, associate professor in marine biology, has been researching the unique properties of Turritopsisdohrnii, often referred to as T. dohrnii, a jellyfish species found around the world, especially off the coastline of her native Italy. The jellyfish cells are able to undergo a process called transdifferentiation that allows T. dohrnii to revert back to a younger life cycle – much like a 40-year-old human who could go back to being a five-year-old.

“When T. dohrnii is faced with unfavorable conditions such as starvation, physical damage, change in temperature etc., instead of dying, it forms a cyst-like ball and settles on the bottom,” she said.

She said that in a few days, that cyst changes into a polyp and eventually these colonies form buds and a new jellyfish. In effect, it has prevented its own death.

 

[White 6]

A species called T. dohrnii is able to reverse its own aging process. Texas A&M-Galveston researchers are trying to see if this could apply to humans.

This Jellyfish Can Defy Death And Turn Back Time

A species called T. dohrnii is able to reverse its own aging process. Texas A&M-Galveston researchers are trying to see if this could apply to humans.

today.tamu.edu

Great! I thought this was going to be a Prevagen commercial.

 

[Mindful]

Great! I thought this was going to be a Prevagen commercial.

Don’t know what that is.

 

[White 6]

Don’t know what that is.

Some money making supplement gimmick, supposedly using something found in jellyfish to turn back the clock on memory.

 

[Mindful]

^ But there’s much to learn from Jellyfish Age Backwards, a beguiling mix of biology and health advice. Drop those antioxidant pills at once. ‘It looks like antioxidant supplements will promote the growth and spread of certain cancers rather than limiting them … excessive antioxidants actually interfere with the process of getting stronger and healthier from exercise.’ Eat well instead.

Perhaps the essence of Brendborg’s insights lie in the concept of the ‘sweet spot’: there’s an ideal amount for everything, not too little, not too much.

You actually need those supposedly ‘damaging’ free radicals to stimulate your own defence systems. Or consider exercise, says the author. It isn’t so much going for a run that’s good for you as the recovery mechanisms it triggers. Running itself sends your blood pressure rocketing, causes multiple tiny muscle tears, stresses the heart, overloads the joints. But when you go to sleep afterwards, the body’s superb repair systems go into turbo mode.

And they have evolved over millions of years precisely to repair any damage done by running, which our ancestors did a lot. Your body pumps out exactly the right amount of antioxidants, sends extra nutrients to repair the muscles, the heart gets stronger and so on. But run to exhaustion and you can leave your immune system weakened for days. It’s all about that sweet spot.

 

[jwoodie]

How do these jellyfish otherwise reproduce?

 

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How do these jellyfish otherwise reproduce?

There are a few jellyfish species that receive sperm through their mouths to fertilise eggs inside the body cavity, but most jellyfish just release sperm or eggs directly into the water. Under favourable conditions they will do this once a day, usually synchronised to dawn or dusk.

More >> How do jellyfish reproduce? | BBC Science Focus Magazine

But if you are immortal, you wouldn’t need to reproduce.

 

[Dekster]

Well if it leaves me the ability to sting people, the whole reverse aging thing is just icing on the cake.

 

[White 6]

How do these jellyfish otherwise reproduce?

Try this:

 

[Mindful]

Try this:

“Try” it?

l thought they already had.

 

[1srelluc]

 

[Cougarbear]

A species called T. dohrnii is able to reverse its own aging process. Texas A&M-Galveston researchers are trying to see if this could apply to humans.

This Jellyfish Can Defy Death And Turn Back Time

A species called T. dohrnii is able to reverse its own aging process. Texas A&M-Galveston researchers are trying to see if this could apply to humans.

today.tamu.edu

And, humans think they are so smart. Yet, they can't even stop their own deaths...

 

[ReinyDays]

Try this:

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW ... God that's disgusting ... I'm never swimming in the ocean ever again ... EWWWWWWWWW ...